Luc Raymond passed away in Geneva on October 14.
A statistician close to his forties, in 1972 Dr Raymond established the Geneva Cancer Registry, of which he was in charge until his retirement in 2001. The Geneva Registry was the first in its country and among the first in Southern Europe.
Since… more

New system for the Elections of the Steering Committee of the ENCR
Note: only the major points and the changes are mentioned
Each registry has 5 votes
Four representatives will be elected from the four candidates with the highest number of votes per UN geographical area Northern, Western,… more

The technical report describes the ECIS web-application, released in February 2018.
- Description and framework of the European Cancer Information System and the ECIS web application
- Getting started with the ECIS web application
- Description of the projects and studies included in the ECIS… more

An ENCR-JRC Symposium and ENCR General Assembly took place on 19 October 2017, as a side event to the 39th IACR Annual Scientific Conference in Utrecht, NL. The event was a unique chance for participants to discuss challenges and agree priorities with the newly elected ENCR Steering Committee and… more

IACR 2017 Utrecht: Ensuring Quality and Use of Data from Cancer Registries in the 21st Century 17-19 October 2017
Jaarbeurs Supernova
Utrecht, the Netherlands
The 39th Annual Conference of the International Association of Cancer Registries is hosted in conjunction with the Belgian Cancer Registry… more

This is an intensive course on the principles, methods and applications of cancer survival with population-based data, using lectures, computer-based analytic exercises with real data, review sessions and a session for participants to present their own work or ideas. Net survival will be the main… more

The course focuses on statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis and will be held from Monday 3rdJuly to Friday 7th July 2017.
It is devoted to biostatisticians, statisticians, epidemiologists; researchers and students; working in a registry of cancer,… more

The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), the ENCR and EUROCARE organised a training on basic statistical analysis of cancer registry data from 5-6 June 2018 at the JRC Ispra, Italy.
The aim of this course was to support the analysis of cancer registry data by describing the… more

The training on data coding, was organised jointly by the ENCR Steering Committee and the European Commission Joint Research Centre. The aim was to improve comparability and harmonisation, particularly on coding topography/morphology and stage.
AGENDA
PRESENTATIONS
Introduction to… more

To promote the use of the EUROCIM software, ENCR organizes courses based on the statistical analysis facilities of this package.
The Eurocim course covers the following topics:
Retrieval of incidence and mortality data stored in EUROCIM,
Statistical background for analysis of descriptive data… more

The third edition of ICD-O was published in 2000. A series of coding courses has been arranged by ENCR for trainers of cancer registry personnel.
The main topics covered are:
Overview of changes ICD-O-2 to ICD-O-3
Differences between ICD-O-3 and ICD-10
Content and structure of the manual
ICD… more

It is important to ensure that standard methods of analysis and appropriate presentations are used in cancer registry reports and research. Some registries have a distinguished history of use of their data in health services and epidemiological research. For others, there may be a need to enhance… more

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JRC-ENCR Workshop - Complementing the incidence indicators in ECIS with national estimates for countries without a national registry.
Cancer incidence indicators at national level are widely used by European public health policies and epidemiological cancer surveillance for time trend evaluations… more

A Workshop on Data Protection was organised on 26th September 2018.
The aim was to explore the impact on the daily activities of EU cancer registries of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to offer guidance to participants on the actions needed to comply with it. The new GDPR as… more

With the increasing availability of medical data in electronic databases, transfer of electronic data from the data sources to the cancer registry is likely to increase substantially in the future. With the aim to make existing automated systems comparable, to reduce the proportion of cases… more

The JRC and the ENCR organised the 2016 ENCR Scientific Meeting and General Assembly, from 5-7 October in Baveno, Italy. The purpose of this bienial meeting was for European cancer registries to share research findings, discuss cancer registration issues, exchange ideas and best practices, network… more

The ENCR and the JRC organised the 2014 ENCR Scientific Meeting and General Assembly. The purpose of this meeting was for European cancer registries to share research findings, discuss cancer registration issues, exchange ideas and best practices, network, present epidemiological work based on… more